For researchers
Research. Write.
Publish. Repeat.
Long documents on real pages with citations, footnotes, tables and LaTeX, plus a project that keeps your sources, notes and drafts together.
Free for up to five projects · No card needed · Web, desktop and phone
The Plotiar editor showing Chapter One of The Aurora Codex. Elena Vance's story bible card, the plot grid and the map of Saltmere lift out of the page around it.
Inside a Plotiar book
Everything your book needs, layered around the page.
Plotiar is one editor with your whole project inside it. Pull it apart and this is what you find, every layer built around the manuscript.
- 01The pageReal A4 or Letter pages, with the margins and breaks your book will print with.
- 02The deskParts, chapters and every tool in one sidebar, with word counts and goals.
- 03The story bibleEvery character, place and object you name, counted in every chapter.
- 04The planPlot grid, corkboard and flowcharts, linked to your chapters.
- 05The worldMaps, family trees and calendars with your own months and days.
- 06The second readerNotes in the margin on pacing, continuity and echoes. It reads. It never writes.
The page
Write on real pages.
Not an endless scroll. Plotiar lays your manuscript out on the page it will print on, with real margins, headers and page numbers, so you always know what your book looks like.
The Plotiar editor with Chapter One on an A4 page. The page changes to US Letter and A5 as the text reflows, then Focus mode clears everything but the page.
Pages that print
A4, A5, US Letter, Legal and A3, with headers, footers and page numbers. Export to 6 × 9 and other trim sizes.
Footnotes and citations
Footnotes, endnotes, bookmarks, citations and a bibliography, built into the page.
Comments and suggestions
Leave notes in the margin, suggest edits and track every change your editor makes.
Every version kept
Snapshots you can restore, plus drafts, branches and side-by-side compare on Plus.
Focus and typewriter
Clear the desk away and keep the line you are writing in the middle of the screen.
Sprints and goals
Timed writing sprints, daily goals and streaks that keep a long book moving.
Tables, images and equations
Everything a manuscript or a thesis needs, from tables and images to LaTeX equations.
Spellcheck and right-to-left
Spellcheck in English, Spanish and French, and right-to-left text for Hebrew and Arabic.
And everything else
Everything a long book needs.
The quiet things that matter on page three hundred.
Write togetherPlus
Invite a co-author or an editor. Everyone on the same page, live, with comments in the margin.
Every draft kept
Snapshots, drafts and branches, so you can rewrite boldly and always find your way back.
200+ templates
Novels, series bibles, screenplays, campaigns, beat sheets and theses, ready to start from.
In and out
Bring in Word, Scrivener, Markdown, PDF, EPUB and Fountain. Export to PDF, EPUB, Word and more.
Goals and streaksPlus
Daily word goals, writing statistics and streaks that turn a long project into a habit.
In your language
Plotiar speaks English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese.
The second reader
It reads your book. It never writes it.
On Pro, Plotiar reads like a sharp first reader. It points out pacing, continuity and echoes in the margin, reviews the whole manuscript, and builds planning tools from what you wrote. The words stay yours.
Pro- Inspect a word, phrase or short sentence for tone, clarity and style
- A full manuscript review, section by section
- Studio builds character bibles, timelines and maps from your chapters
- Your writing is never used to train AI
A reading light moves down Chapter One and three notes appear in the margin, level with the sentences they are about. Beside the page, a manuscript analysis runs its six sections and Studio builds a character bible, a relationship map, a plot grid, a timeline and a continuity bible.
The plan
Plan in whatever shape your story takes.
Some books start as a grid, some as a wall of index cards, some as a web of people. Plotiar has all three, linked to the same chapters.
Chapters down, plot lines across. See every thread at once and what still needs writing.
Swipe to see the whole board
The end
Then, one day, it's a book.
When the last chapter is done, export a print-ready PDF or an EPUB with a cover, a table of contents and your front matter. Or send a Word file to your editor.
- EPUB
- Word
- Fountain
- Plain text
- 6 × 9 in
- 5 × 8 in
- A5
Anywhere
Every desk you write at.
In the browser, as an app on Mac, Windows and Linux, and on your phone. Your book saves as you type and is waiting wherever you sit down next.
Chapter One open in the Plotiar desktop app on a laptop, on a tablet and on a phone.
- Any browser
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone and Android
The Mac download is for Apple Silicon. Intel Mac version
The story bible
Write a name once. Plotiar remembers the rest.
Characters, places, factions and objects become entries beside your manuscript. Plotiar finds every mention in every chapter and maps who is tied to whom, so chapter twenty never forgets chapter two.
- Your own entry types, fields and tags
- Mentions counted in every chapter
- Relationships, progressions and what each character knows
- Find entries in what you have written already (Pro)
Chapter One of The Aurora Codex. The names The Lighthouse, Elena, the Ridge and Saltmere light up and become entries in the Lore list. Beside them, mention counts by chapter and a web of relationships between six characters.
The world
Draw the world your book lives in.
Maps you draw yourself, family trees that span generations, and calendars with your own months and days. Every place, person and date stays linked to your story bible.
- Hand-drawn maps with pins, routes and layers
- Family trees with marriages and generations
- Calendars with your own months and weekdays
- Idea boards for everything that does not fit yet
A passage from Chapter One names the Ridge, Saltmere, the harbour, the headland and the lighthouse. The map of Saltmere unrolls and each place drops onto it as a pin, then Elena's path lights up. Beside it, the story calendar and the Vance family tree.
Pricing
Start free. Stay as long as you like.
The whole editor and every planning tool are free. Upgrade when you want co-authors, print exports or a second reader.
Free
Enough for a whole novel.
$0/ month
Start writing, freeNo card needed
- Up to 5 projects
- The page-based editor on web, desktop and phone
- Lore story bible with mentions and relationships
- Plot grid, corkboard, flowcharts, maps, family trees and calendars
- Comments, notes and tasks
- 200+ templates
- Export to Word, Fountain and plain text
- Most writers
Plus
For co-authors and finished books.
$5/ month
Try Plus free for 14 daysNo card needed for the trial
- Everything in Free, and:
- Unlimited projects
- Co-authors and editors, live on the same page
- Print-ready PDF and EPUB with covers and contents
- Drafts and branches
- Goals, streaks and writing statistics
- Custom themes
Pro AI
For a second reader in the margin.
$12/ month
Try Pro free for 14 daysNo card needed for the trial
- Everything in Plus, and:
- Inspect, manuscript analysis and Studio
- Chat and brainstorm about your book
- Find Lore entries in what you have written
- About 250 AI credits every week
- Bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key
Plus costs less each month than a paperback. Compare every feature
Questions
Before you start.
Yes. Each project supports unlimited documents and nested folders. Create separate folders for literature review, methodology, data analysis notes, and draft sections. Use flowcharts to map relationships between papers or research questions. Insert LaTeX equations directly in your documents for mathematical notation. Everything stays in one place.
Yes. On the Plus plan, Smart Content includes auto-generated bibliographies for your exports. You can organize your references within your project and have them formatted automatically in your PDF or DOCX output.
Yes. Invite co-authors, reviewers, or lab members by email. Everyone sees the same real pages with live cursors, can leave inline comments, and edits sync instantly. Only the project owner needs Plus ($5/month) - everyone else joins free.
Notion and Obsidian are excellent knowledge bases, but neither shows real pages or supports A4 document layout. Plotiar combines structured writing (real pages, export-ready documents) with visual planning (flowcharts, ideaboards), LaTeX equations, and real-time collaboration - designed for producing academic papers, not just collecting notes.
Yes. Flowcharts are ideal for mapping relationships between sources, visualizing research gaps, or diagramming your methodology. Create structured diagrams alongside your documents - your visual planning is always one click from your draft.
Yes. The free plan includes up to five projects with unlimited documents, flowcharts, ideaboards, notes, tasks, and comments. Plus ($5/month) adds unlimited projects, collaboration, bibliography support in exports, and more export formats.
Free plan includes TXT, DOCX and Fountain. Plus adds PDF and EPUB. Plus also includes Smart Content: auto-generated tables of contents and bibliographies. Export your paper directly as a polished document ready for submission.
Free and Plus give you the full research workspace - real pages, LaTeX equations, flowcharts, citations, bibliography generation, and co-author collaboration. Pro ($12/month) is optional and adds AI tools for academic work: Brainstorm Chat (with your sources injected as context, so it can reason against your literature), AI Studio generators relevant to research (Argument Structure Map, Citation & Evidence Index), and AI Bibliography for assisted reference assembly. AI helps you organize and stress-test arguments - it does not write your paper. Includes roughly $2.50/week of AI usage.
Yes. Cancel from your account settings whenever you want. Your projects remain accessible on the free plan (limited to five projects). No lock-in, no penalties.
Your book is waiting on the desk.
Open a project, write the first line, and let Plotiar keep track of everything around it.
Free for up to five projects · No card needed · Web, desktop and phone
Now go write the next sentence.